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Commentary
The great carbon market racket
By Adam Cruise - Daily Maverick Nature and the people living with nature are exchanged on a market so that polluters can keep polluting and speculators can profit. Carbon reduction and biodiversity protection schemes are simply a corporate money-making racket. Carbon markets have come under intense criticism in recent years, with entities facing accusations of “greenwashing” and a number of high-profile cases involving phantom credits, exploitation of local communities and human rights abuses. In a report for the EMS Foundation, it was found that the carbon market, especially the...
Jumbo collaring effort reveals key elephant movement corridors
By Abhishyant Kidangoor - Mongabay Scientists and conservationists have collaborated to create what is possibly the largest database of GPS-collared elephants. The database contains 4 million GPS data points that were collected by collaring 300 African elephants in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, home to the largest population of African elephants in the world. Based on the movement of elephants, the team assessed the landscape to identify key areas and corridors for conservation purposes. The findings have already been used to identify small-scale movement corridors for...
News
‘Suffering psychologically’: Court battle looms over future of Joburg Zoo’s three elephants
By Bernadette Wicks Two non-profits have filed a case in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, aimed at releasing three elephants at the Johannesburg Zoo into the wild. They say their continued...
Population surge: KWS moves 50 elephants from Mwea Reserve to Aberdare
By Colins Omulo, Daily Nation About 50 elephants have been moved from Mwea National Reserve to Aberdare National Park following a surge in the animal's population in the reserve. The development...
Mozambique: Conservation area revenues rise to all-time high of €3.2M in 2023
By Club of Mozambique Revenues collected by conservation areas in Mozambique increased to an all-time high of 226 million meticais (€3.2 million) last year, according to a report by the National...
Press releases
CNRG STATEMENT ON ELEPHANT CULLING
The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) has learned with shock and deep concern a decision made by the government to slaughter 200 elephants ostensibly to feed hungry citizens and reduce the elephant population, said to be way over the country’s carrying capacity. We argue that...
Studies
Landscape connectivity for African elephants in the world’s largest transfrontier conservation area: A collaborative, multi-scalar assessment
By Naidoo et al - Journal of Applied Ecology Abstract Landscape connectivity...
Elephants on the move: Mapping connections across African landscapes
By Lauren Quinn, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences...
One elephant can sustain more than 2 million dung beetles in east African savannas, study finds
By Frank Krell, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Phys.org How many dung...
Reports
The Carbon Mitigation Market: Problems in an African and South African Context
By Adam Cruise - EMS Foundation Carbon mitigation or carbon offsets is a trading mechanism that enables governments, businesses, or individuals to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions by investing in projects that reduce, avoid, or remove emissions elsewhere. When an entity invests...
About
The Journal of African Elephants was created by a group of concerned journalists, biologists and conservationists, who, after years of tracking and documenting the catastrophic decline of Africa’s elephant populations, have recognised the urgent need for a dedicated English and French news and commentary space to enhance and increase global awareness of the plight of Africa’s savanna and forest elephants. Our Commentary service, in particular, are writers that focus on the need to provide awareness of Africa’s elephants and affected surrounding human communities from a distinctly African perspective that, for the most part, is lacking in the dominance of Western media.